On January 1st. I managed to do a painting in one sitting. I feel like that was/is a good way to start 2015. I took a short drive and photographed some local orange groves and tried something outside of my comfort zone. I hope this is the beginning of “fruitful” period of painting for this year.

I have been trying my hand at painting again and enjoying it very much. I didn’t realize how much I missed oils until I broke them out again. I also discovered this wonderful stuff called cold wax medium. It allows for some really amazing textures.

So far I’ve only be able to create an ink drawing every other day so I think I will stick to that rhytym rather than play catch-up. So here are my first 3. I hope to do lots of experimenting to find what suits me best as I don’t really ink stuff that often.

Neo from the Matrix as a cartoon character. Ink w/brush. #inktober

Skull, Ballpiont pen #inktober

Birdman, ink experiment with different inks and tools. #inktober

I pretty much blew it for Inktober got too busy with work and family but here is one more I didn’t have time to post:

Well apologies first, I had a very bad cold and cough the last 4 weeks really slowing me down so I kinda rushed this one to make it into a group show based on the four basic elements. This is not my best work but not my worst either, The Koko the clown character has always been a favorite of mine and I thought if I ever painted him it would have to be at least as weird as the old cartoons, so there ya go. I hope I can revisit this later and paint it up right.